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Twelve The Bee: Danville Var Wednesday October 17 1956 Tigers On VergeOfNaming Tighe As New Manager 4 1 7 Claassen Picks Word Awaited On New Danville Pilot Snider Pacesetter Oklahoma Star press 11 baseball follow a Class farm 89 emerged the others In a Old Twlor PROO i KENTUCKY STRAIGHT TAYLOR BOURBON WHISKEY 2 Pay when Money on terms you select as PROO QUART KIND Phono 7290 i THE OLD TAYLOR DISTILLERY C0M fRANWORT I LOUISVILLE KY DIV NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS CORP Oftd rcoiH qUBKb £SfBr pobhKn 4'ply rating North Carolina: team defeats his over over was He and Sarah in the 9 topmost CLASS and 47 Dan Currie is the biggest man on Michigan first string line The 230 pound guard from Detroit is 6 feet 3 ASTMIGUT BOURBON WHlSKtV This Sale I in the 16 0 win over Vanderbilt Jimmy Klisanin of Wichita who scored three touchdowns and kick ed an extra point for all of his points in a 19 13 triumph over Detroit Gene Newton of Tulane whose two touchdown passes beat Navy 21 6 Toppy Vann of Georgia Tech Sonny Jurgensen of Duke Mel Dillard of Purdue and Don Long of UCLA NEW YORK Mickey Mantle won the American League slug ging championship in 1956 with the highest average in 15 years The New York star cen ter fielder piled up 376 total bases in 533 times at bat for a 705 mark igures compiled by the As sociated Press today also revealed Duke Snider of the Brooklyn Dod gers was the National pacesetter He edged Joe Adcock to 597 The titles were the second for boh Mantle and Snider Mickey was the top man in 1955 with 611 while Snider was high in 1953 when he nipped Eddie Mathews of Milwaukee by almost the narrow est of to 6269 Mantle who also led the junior circuit in batting runs batted in and home runs numbered 79 ex tra base hits among his 188 safe ties last season In addition to his 52 four baggers the 24 year old switch hitter had 22 doubles and five triples Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox runnerup to Mantle in '56 with a 603 average was the last player to have a better than 705 slugging mark He finished with735 in 1941 In fact only six other players have slugged as high as 700 Babe Ruth of the Yankees did it nine times Jimmy oxx of the Red Sox and Athletics had it three times Rogers Hornsby did it twice with the St Louis Cards and Lou Gehrig of the Yanks Stan Musial of the Cards and Hack Wilson of the Chicago Cubs each reached700 once Ruth holds the in 1920 Yogi Berra of the Yankees and Charley Maxwell of Detroit wound up in a third place deadlock the past season Berra had 278 total bases including 29' doubles two triples and 30 homers in 521 at bats Maxwell picked up 267 total bases with 14 two baggers three triples and 28 home runs among 163 safeties Both showed 534 marks Snider the National leader in home runs with 43 also cracked 33 doubles and a pair of three baggers ampng 158 hits for 324 total bases Adcock had 132 hits which also included 23 dou bles one triple and 38 circuit blows Hank Aaron of the Braves the batting champ tied Cincin rank Robinson for third place Each slugged 558 Aaron put together the most total bases 340 in 609 times at bat Robinson an outstanding first year player had 319 total bases in 572 trips Willie Mays of the New York Giants the senior top slugger in 1954 and 1955 was fifth in with a 555 average He had 321 total bases resulting from 171 hits of which 26 were doubles eight triples and 36 home runs Musial by finishing in ninth place at 522 saw his lifetime slug ging percentage drop to 578 The stalw art however still has the highest average among Na tional Leaguers who have played a minimum of 10 seasons Babe Ruth heads the American League with 692 Slugging averages are computed by adding the total bases on all hits and dividing the result by the number of official times at bat GET OUR PLAYERS HOLLYWOOD The Holly wood Stars have picked up a home run slugger two pitchers and an infielder from New Orleans They are Outfielder Emil Panko who socked 33 roundtrippers for the Pelicans last year Pitchers Don Kildoo and Don Schultz and In fielder Ken Toothman Star President Robert Cobb announced the deal yesterday 'oppobl tt ill 4 00 its By WILL GRIMSLEY (The Associated Press) Tommy McDonald nimble split halfback who spe cializes in the option play has taken a long step toward repeating as a member of the All America team The 170 pound speedster from Albuquerque was chosen of the in the first such 1956 poll of sports writers and broadcasters conducted by the Associated Press McDonald was the principal in strument in the 45 0 rout of Texas last Saturday at Dallas A runner who does the 100 in 97 seconds the Oklahoma half back scored three of his touchdowns tieing with a team mate Clendon Thomas in the point making department But Mc all around brilliance drew the attention of those attending the game He scored one touchdown on a 44 yard run and a second on a 53 yard pass play on which he caught a 35 yard heave and ran an addi tional 18 yards The third score was made from four yards out on a plunge In all McDonald gained 160 of his 369 yards on the ground In addition he caught two passes for 61 yards returned a kickoff 54 yards and passed 27 yards once to set up fourth touchdown He had a 47 yard run cancelled by a penalty McDonald had to beat out a col lection of top flight backs includ ing Jim Brown of Syracuse Ken Wineburg of Texas Christian and John Call of Colgate Brown the 212 pound steam roller of Syracuse who looms as one of the leading ball carriers personally wrecked West Virginia 27 20 He reeled off 165 yards scored two touchdowns set up a third and kicked three extra points Wineburg playing in the shadow of the great Jim Swink uncorked runs of 46 and 41 yards for touch downs in 23 6 victory over Alabama Call of Colgate played in a game of less bigtime stature but his in dividual performance was none the less scintillating He scored four touchdowns in litte more than a quarter three in 13 minutes to help beat Rutgers 48 6 Other standout backs were: John Brodie of Stanford who completed 13 of 24 passes two for touch downs in beating San Jose State 40 20 Paige Cothren of Mississippi who set a Southeastern Conference record by kicking three field goals Women Engage In Intra Club Golf Tourney 121 Union St over Piggly Wiggly Knights of Pythian Bldg PHONE: 636 or 3821 or 7421 By HAROLD CLAASSEN NEW YORK Eight of selections involving southern col lege football teams were wrong last week In all there were 30 correct guesses and 13 wrong ones for an average of 698 That makes the season's total 134 right and 39 wrong for 787 Here are this winners after a menu well spiced with hominy grits and corn pone: Oklahoma over Kansas: The reign as the mythical na tional leaders is being threatened That will be woe on Sat urday Michigan State over Notre Dame: Notre sophomores to get a liberal education watching Michi gan State Halfbacks Clarence Peaks and Walt Kowalczyk operate By more than a year ago when State won 21 7 Georgia Tech over Auburn: The way Auburn handled Kentucky last week was a surprise This time the Plainsmen will get the surprise Mississippi over Tulane: A neighborhood argument that likely will be decided by Paige efforts in the Rebel backfield Tennessee over Alabama: Times they say are tough all over but especially so in Alabama Michigan over Northwestern: It simply in the Cards for the Northwestern Wildcats to claw their way to victory in this one Southern California over Wash ington: The Trojans have had a lot of trouble during the past year including a 7 0 setback by Wash ington in 1955 USC gets revenge this time Texas A over Texas Chris tian: The blocking and tackling in this one will be heard all over Texas The cheers of the home crowd A traditional 12th man will give the Cadets the edge over Jim Swink and company Ohio State over Penn State: Day by day in everyway the Buckeye get better and better Miami over Georgia: The Bull winning streak ends at one Georgia will suspect rhat the lights were turned off after being hit by Don Bosseler great full back Iowa over Hawaii: Victory No 4 for the lowans Syracuse over Army: The Cadets will be grateful that there are not 11 Jim Browns Maryland over Jim old new one Skipping over hurry: riday night: George Washington over Virginia arther out front than ever ar this low sale price! 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The famous open center tread and self cleaning straight bar lugs give you more powerful pull and longer more even wear Greater tread depth at the shoulder and center line provides extra traction where you need it Military Denver over Colorado College Saturday: East Villanova over Boston Uni versity Harvard over Columbia Dartmouth over Holy Cross Navy over Cincinnati Brown over Penn Virginia over Lehigh Colgate over Princeton Boston College over Rutgers Yale over Cornell Midwest: Dayton over North Carolina State Tulsa Detroit Colorado over Iowa State Missouri over Kansas State College of Pa cific over Marquette Illinois over Minnesota Nebraska over Indiana Houston over Oklahoma A Wichita over Drake Wisconsin over Purdue South: Davidson over Stetson Pittsburgh over Duke Wake orest over lorida State Kentucky over LSU Mississippi Stau? over Ar kansas State Virginia Tech over Richmond Vanderbilt over lorida West Virginia over William Mary Southwest: Southern Methodist over Rice Texas over Arkansas ar West: UCLA over California Montana over Brigham Young Ari zona over New Mexico Stanford over Oregon Utah Stare over Colo rado A Oregon State Washington State Wyoming Utah Lenora Jones with an Barbara Dunglinson with a were winners respectively of yes 18 and 9 hole tournament played by members of the Wom Association of the Danville Golf Club Runnerup In the 18 hole event was Dot Rich with a 97 Powell was runnerup hole play with a 54 Margaret Swicegood with the best poker hand a 57 The next activity of the association will be participation in an invitational tournament at the Roxboro Country Club next Tuesday The local players will be in competition with the ladies of that club Those desiring to make the trip are asked to con tact Barbara Dunglinson tourna ment chairman by telephoning 2090 SAN RANCISCO Winners of almost every conceivable ama teur boxing title go for broke to night in opening action of Ameri most exciting fight the Olympic trials The three day tournament has brought together 107 fight for fun athletes the survivors of an ex tensive elimination process taking in colleges Golden Gloves AAU and service competition Milton (Dubby) Holt coach manager of the team calls the group perhaps the finest ever to squaie off in an Olympic preliminary Elimination bouts tonight and tomorrow give way to finals riday in which the 10 team members will be selected make the trip to Melbourne Australia next month to defend the five cham pionships won by the United States in 1952 As in the past the trials will preview some of the top profes sional boxers of the future Many Olympic fighters eventually turn pro and with the outstanding talent on hand this time 1956 should be no exception The rescinding of the Olympic amateur an avowal that an athlete does not plan to become a makes it possible for boxers to enter pro ranks after the games without breaking faith The proposed pledge was cancelled before it went into effect GUNS REPAIRED EXPERT REPAIRING Booth White Sport Shop "Danville's inest Sport Store" Texas A avored BeatTC cision to eeney added that Stanky had been offered a job as a scout but nothing the big Two veterans Outfielder Monte Irvin and Pitcher Jim Hughes were traded by the Cubs today to Los Angeles of Pacific Coast League for George reese a 30 year old third baseman In late action involving major league rosters yesterday two vet eran George (Red) Mun ger and Walt Masterson were put on the waiver list in a step toward their unconditional release by the Pittsburgh Pirates and Tigers re spectively Baltimore shipped Outfielder Joe razier and Pitcher Morris Mar tin to Vancouver of the Pacific Coast League RANCIS PARKER 18 years Most of the time as a player in triple A ball was brought up to Detroit four times but later assigned back Parker piloted the Leafs to a third place finish the past season won the playoff semi finals but lost out in the finals four games to two when his pitching faltered un der pressure The announcement regarding Stanky not returning to Minneap olis stirred rumors he would join manager bill Kigney and the Giants in capacity of coach but Horace Stoneham president of the Giants squelched the report with nothing to such comes as a complete shock to Stanky said at his air hope Ala home thought I did a fairly good job with the material I had especially after the way the Giants shuttled the players back and was led to believe that at the end of the season I was to be come a coach of the the onetime Cardinal manager added have no plans for the 1957 season as yet but I will be in base ball in some capacity I have had many offers and I am frvintr I make a major league Amateur Boxers Clash Tonight In Olympic Trials Will Leave Only One Vacancy In Majors Cleveland Indians Sally Parker To Manage Dallas Next Year In Shuffle By Giants 2 Promotion of rancis Parker manager of the Danville Leafs the past season to the post of managing Dallas in the Class AA Texas League stirred specula tion among local ers today The New York Giants who op erate Danville as announced yesterday that Eddie Stanky was as manager of their triple AMinneapolis club that Dallas manager John Davis will manage the Millers in 1957 and that Parker was being assigned to manage Dallas Word was being awaited here today from the headquar ters in New York to a wired query as to who would be assigned to replace Parker as pilot of the Leafs provided the Giants ope rate the local club again in 1957 (The decision hinges upon the suc 1 cess oi me saie oi aavance season tickets a project of the Danville Kiwams club) The new pilot most likely will come from another club in the nine member New York farm sys tem ranging down to Class one year tenure In Danville thus apparently satisfied Giant officials that he merits the promotion to Dallas a jump over managing in A ball Parker suc ceeded Andy Gilbert here with Gilbert being advanced to Class A Johnstown Pa but a poor start resulted in Gilbert being replaced there and assigned to scouting Whether Gilbert who managed Danville for three years will be returned to managing remains to be seen Parker came here from Class Eldorado in the Cotton States League his first year in the organization Previously he managed Shreveport an inde pendent team in the Texas League for five years in addition to man aging Temple and Tyler in the Class Big State League He finally decided that oppor tunities were greater with a major league organization than with in dependent clubs and latched on with the Giants and assigned to Eldorado for the 1955 season He has been professional RECAP WITH ROYAL WINTERIDE Tube or Tubeless The Royal Winteride tire Is spe cifically designed for city and country driv ing The husky high tread blocks break away from mud snowdrifts and hard packed curbside snow ruts provide full traction power! 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